Pranking the District Leader

Hi!  This week was a crazy one.  Everyone wanted to prank the district leader and I am his comp so I get pranked too.  We are coming up on transfers so they like to prank us as many times before we're out of here.  We think that Elder Marrott will be transferred. and I will stay.  But we will see what happens.  This week we had zone training meeting and district meeting and the assistants came to both, so we think that Elder Marrott is going to be the next zone leader because they never come to the meetings.  Also this week we did a lot of exchanges, I am really starting to like them ha but only when I stay in my area though because then I don't have to pack I just get to stay.  This week we taught 7 lessons we went to the sisters baptism and got to share the restoration with everyone there which was cool because there was a lot of non members there.  But also scary because it was a lot of people!

With the pranks and everything this week its been driving Elder Marrott insane. haha  He's so freaked out.  All the missionary's came to me and asked me to leave the top lock unlocked on the front door. So I did and they carded the door and then jumped out and scared him.  It was awesome.  But he was so mad at us. haha  We also tracted a lot yesterday and did a lot of service.  We all got sun burnt, some of us got it really bad but I'm glad I have dads skin and just tanned!  At the service we just had to stand there and tell kids when to go on the bouncy houses haha it was fun.  

Well that's my week love you all sooooo much!

Elder Peterson

Mother's Day!

Hey, sorry I'm emailing so late, we have been in the emergency room all day today.  The other Elder Peterson just wrecked on his bike so we took him to the hospital and he needs surgery.  Ugh we sat there forever!!!!  It was so awesome to talk to everyone yesterday I loved every second of it!  It made me so happy but super trunky haha.  I will tell the Lurker's thank you when I see them.  

So this week I don't think I got to talk about my week this week over Skype. So this week we  did a totally of 9 lessons.  I am really starting to like teaching a lot more because there so young (YSA) it makes it so much easier.  We did two blessings one for healing one for strength it was really cool.  We just found out that Katherin is pregnant we were not happy with her.  She wants to keep working with us but its going to be harder now.  We don't do a lot of tracting here and I love that.  I have been super tired this week and just pass out at the end of the night, I guess that when you know you have done a really good day of work.  Were hoping our investigator fritz we can get a baptismal date soon I would be super excited.  We have another investigator Gabriela that we had a lesson with and we asked her to give the closing prayer and she prayed to know if being baptized is the thing that she needs to do.  Me and Elder Marrott opened our eyes at the same time and looked at each other and smiled during the prayer then we closed our eyes again and continued with the prayer. haha It was way cool.

 But this was week was good only because I got to Skype you guys today and it was awesome. I loved every second of it.  It was the best ever! I  wish I could Skype longer. I wish I could've seen grandma and grandpa and all the cousins. But that's okay tell them I love them. But that day was for you mom and I hope you loved it as much as I did. I LOVE YOU MOM well I have a interview with the president this week and I don't know what hes going to tell me he kinda scared me in the interview he said he needed to talk to me about something pretty serious so we were going to need to have a longer meeting. So I guess we will see what happens. Well I love you guys like crazy. Thanks for everything and thank you Ty and Lace for coming all the way up to see me! LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!

Love,

Elder Peterson

Tavin looked and sounded great yesterday.  It was sooo good to talk to him.  He was back to his super funny self.  He had us all rolling!  We had a great visit with him. He is feeling much better and has most of the Dr. appointments behind him.  He sent a short video message to give you all.  Thanks again for all your love and support.  Ben & Stacy 

Bit by another dog

Hey family, I had a pretty crazy week. Since my new comp is a district leader, I have to go on exchanges all the freaking time. I don't have any pics today I forgot my camera. We know where we will get to skype. I cant wait!

This week has been way rough. I have had to call and talk to the president a couple times. It been so hard! :(  I'm just really trying to focus right now and don't know how to do it. I haven't been feeling very well AGAIN. Just stupid headaches again so I'm kinda nervous I'm going to have another seizure but I think I won't. This week in sacrament meeting I got to share my testimony, I loved it. This week we did a lot of teaching again lesson after lesson after lesson! About 10 lessons.

This week we got another baptismal date coming but not for awhile. I got bit by another dog! haha We were teaching this guy and I sat down and it freaking attacked my hand. Luckily it mostly got my ring and my watch so I was good, no blood but it freaked me out so bad. haha We are still working with Kathryn the one whose baptism got pushed back 6 months. We broke her the news that she had to wait and she cried it was really sad but she said that she was going to be strong and keep working with us which is great.

We got a new investigator this week, her name is Gabriela, she is way cool. We asked her to say the prayer at the end of our lesson that night and she prayed to know if she should get baptized. It was way cool and we taught her a really great lesson on the gospel of Jesus Christ. So she is pretty excited, we got 6 of our investigators to church on Sunday. They just like all showed up we were freaking out it was so cool. Some of them bore their testimony on Sunday, it was way cool.

The house looks great I like it. We don't get fed too much here but yea we are working hard with all the singles. Right now we're trying to find more.

The brain x ray went pretty well. I get my results for them on the 9th, I also had my MRI. It was one of the freakiest things ever, I had to go in a tube and it was so freaking small and tight and I had to sit in it for 20 min. It was really loud but it's all done i just have one more. I'm going to tell him that I haven't been feeling good again to see what he says about it. Well I love you guys all of you. Stay Strong!

If You Can't Stand Anymore . . . Kneel!

Hey guys! I talked to the doctor on Sunday so were good he said my blood pressure was a little high or something like that but nothing we need to worry about. He just said to keep an eye on how I feel these next couple weeks. He is really nice. I'm still taking it day by day just really having a very hard time right now but taking it day by day. I'm working my hardest and praying like crazy. They say if you are having such a hard time to where you cant stand anymore! kneel! so that's what I'm doing every second of everyday right now, asking the Lord for help and for comfort! We have still been working our butts off. We got another baptismal date for Mother's Day. haha I'm hoping that wont be a problem. I don't think it will. I freaking loved all the presents I got this week they were awesome thank you all! We also got two new investigators they are dating and they both want to take the lessons so we're going to start working with them. My comp is helping me through this so much. He's really there for me! He's really a great comp. Thanks for everything guys for all you do, especially the prayers love you all!

Hospital, EEG & MRI's

Ok first I need to apologize for not getting Tav's latest emails out . . . we had to move unexpectedly and Tav has had some health problems so I have been waiting for the results.

The first night of Tav's transfer, he was rushed to the hospital and spent the night due to what they think was a seizure.  Having never had a seizure before, he has been going through lots of testing over the last several weeks.  We just got his results from his EEG and MRI, they came back completely normal.  Such a blessing.  He will now continue to follow up with his Dr.  As many of you know, Tav cannot stand Drs.  However, being in a new area not knowing a sole he has handled it overall really well.  (Only attempting to rip monitors off and get up and leave once.)

I continue to feel peace feeling that it may have been due to him being completely overwhelmed.  He had many circumstances that could have easily led to this as well as the fact that he is too much like his mother in that change is hard.

We are soo excited to get to talk to him today and will let you know how he is doing!!!  Thank you for your continued love, support and prayers.  

Ben & Stacy

LA Temple for my Birthday

Hey guys,  It looks like everything is going awesome, that's so cool that you had some sisters over!  We have still been working hard this week we stayed pretty busy and got two new investigators.  We met on the street he was selling some solar business or something and we caught up to him and talked to him for like a hour.  He's really cool, really happy guy all the time.  One of those over excited about everything kind of guys. haha But hes so nice he said he loves the gospel and wants to know more, so Elder Bready will start working with him.  He was born and raised in Jerusalem CRAZY he has some crazy stories hes here for work and told us to come and give him all the lessons!  So elder Brady will also start working with him.  We had a district meeting this week and I was asked to give a talk on patience.  It ended up being a really good talk I took a lot longer than Iwas supposed to though ha so kinda got in trouble. haha jk  But it was really good.  I focused on patience with missionary work.  So it turned out really good.  We went to the temple this week for my birthday, the LA temple.  It is so pretty it was so much fun we went with Elder Brady 's cousin.  He took us both and we had a lot of fun then we went to cafe rio after.  It was really good and the really huge thing that happened to me this week is that I'm getting transferred! yup I'm out of here I said all my goodbyes to all the members in the ward last night and I got up in priesthood and shared my testimony with everyone.  I will be packing up everything tonight and heading out tomorrow.  I'm feeling really nervous but kinda excited.  I'm actually going to miss this place. haha But that's how my week went, pretty busy.  Love you guys!!!

Elder Peterson

Just One More Door!

HI!

Our investigators are doing great we have taught them a lot this week like three times each haha it was good.  Yeah me and Elder Brady are so sick of each other haha.  We have been together too long ha.  I sent you guys a letter today saying what has been going on this week this week we gave one blessing a lot of tracking and a lot of lessons with our new investigators.  

We found two more people to teach but we can't say there investigators just yet.  When need to meet with them to be sure.  We just talked to them on the door step and they said we could come back and teach them.  We had a really good zone training meeting this week it was really good.  Other than that just a whole lot of tracking!  We went to an area this week that we don't usually go to and that's where we found the two that we might be teaching soon.  It was really cool, we had been knocking that area for a very long time.

When we started getting mad Elder Brady said we should just leave and I was like just one more door and that last door that we knocked on was awesome.  It was a younger mom and she said we could come back and teach her than we asked if she knew anyone else that would like us to teach them and she said her friend would want to know more about what we were talking about so she told us where she lives and we went there and that was the second person we got this week. So it was a pretty busy and good week all around.  My letter goes more into detail.  We were at the college emailing so I don't know if the pictures are going to work.  Love you guys.!!! and miss you so much!!!

Elder Peterson

Yea I wrote you letter thanking you for the conference bingo papers I laughed so hard!!! haha and yes I loved conference I have like 5 pages of notes from it I loved it I thought they were going to announce something big though I was getting ready for it but it never came ha but I love the talk that was talking about how we shouldn't even think about getting addicted to something because it is so much harder to stop one then to start it I loved that one I think it was in priesthood conference though. I'm not sure but it was so good!